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...should have the opportunity to experience,” he said. A Cambridge native who had gone through the city’s public school system, Schuster said he was originally encouraged to run for school committee by the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts. Schuster, then working as a teacher in CPS, said he noticed that the committee lacked teacher representation. When he was elected, he was the only current teacher on the committee. During his time on the committee, Schuster said he emphasized civics education and helped start a sub-committee to improve the way the school committee?...
Perhaps a more apt criticism of OLPC is that the laptops don’t directly support local educational infrastructure. The project is decentralized and shifts agency to kids and away from state educational systems. OLPC supplies equipment, not teacher training or better curriculum. But there’s no reason why OLPC can’t accompany other state-sponsored initiatives. Ablorde Ashigbi ’11, an OLPC representative, claims, “An XO is never supposed to substitute for a teacher. But it does purposefully empower the children. People don’t realize there?...
...reflects. Rather than the classic sports-beginnings story of the pot-bellied uncle with the flimsy baseball cap living vicariously through his bony nephew by tossing him in some peewee league before he can read, O’Connor actually got into wrestling another way. His primary school gym teacher, who was also a varsity wrestling head coach, spotted some talent in the seven-year-old. “I think he just kind of saw that I was an athletic little terror in gym class,” O’Connor recalls. “He asked...
...over his two terms. Near the end of his second term, when the state suffered from a $2.5 billion deficit and one of the highest unemployment rates in the land, Locke declined to raise taxes, angering fellow Democrats. He also turned his back on promises to reform education, eliminating teacher raises and angering their union, who effectively "un-endorsed" him. Thousands of teachers later marched on the state capitol...
...When I tried to fix him up with dates, I'd tell them, 'He's a really nice guy, but very serious. At the end of the night, though, if you ask him in for a cup of tea, that's all he's going to ask for.'" - Seattle teacher Carol Austin, on longtime friend Locke, The Seattle Times...